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How to change the case of all post titles to “Title Case”

I am helping my father with his WordPress website. It has over 1,700 posts with TITLES IN UPPERCASE. We'd like to change these to "Title Case" in the database (possibly using this PHP script). The ...
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How to prevent apostrophes and quotes from appearing in permalinks?

I'm using custom permalinks "/%category%/%postname%/". Whenever a post title contains quotes or apostrophes they appear in the URL. Can someone tell me how prevent them from appearing in the slug? ...
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Change page title in admin area

Is there someway to change the title in wp-admin? Been looking all over google but no one seem to mention it. I simply want to get rid of "— WordPress" and possibly change the "‹" into ...
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query_post by title?

is it possible to create a loop of posts using WP_Query or query_posts using the title? ie $args = array('post_title'='LIKE '.$str.'% '); $res = WP_Query($arg); // the loop... // trying this ...
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Is there any way to dynamically alter widget titles?

I have a case where that are a lot of widgets in several custom sidebars. I am wondering if there is a simple way to alter the titles of each widget dynamically. Typically a widget has a title field ...
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How can i add title attributes to next and previous post link functions

It's a pretty simple question really! For some reason a title attribute is not appended to next_post_link and prev_post_link calls in Wordpress. Anyone got any tips on this? Thanks
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Force post slug to be auto generated from title on save

I'm running a property site where many properties are sold in apartment blocks. Because of this what the content editors do is create a post/property with all the details and then use a duplicate ...
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How to correctly get post type in a the_title filter

I want to prepend text to the post titles of a specific custom post type, but the filter below didn't work. Instead of changing only that CPT's post titles, it changed all titles on the given CPT's ...
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Changing title to lowercase [closed]

Lets say i have 100 posts. And i would like to lowercase the title. but only 70 of it. I cant use text-transform or mb_strtolower. Is there anyway to download posts and lowercase the title with ...
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Fill post titles from post content?

I imported over 1000 posts from a Tumblr gallery. All the posts are untitled, but each has a photo and name inside of the post. How do I make take the content of each post and make it the post name?
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get attachment title based on attachment id

I'm getting an image through getMeta. It returns me the id of the attachment. Now I want to get the titel, alternative text, description and so on. For the alternative text this works very well: ...
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How to get page's ID if I know the title only?

Is there an exact opposite funciton to this one: get_the_title(ID) I know there's: get_the_id() But it doesn't seem to accept any arguments. So, basically, I'm looking for something like: ...
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Set Custom Post Type title to the Post's Date

I have a custom post type, called 'status' and I have disabled 'title' in the post type. Right now it's setting all posts to have the title "Auto Draft". I want to set up a way to set the title to be ...
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How I check if the same post slug has not been used before publishing?

For an indie rock agenda I created event posts. With the help of javascript, the custom fields values (bands, places and date info picked in select boxes) are copied as the post title when publishing ...
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Copy a Taxonomy Term into the Post Title for a certain Custom Post Type

I am using Gravity Forms to allow users to create posts from the front end. However, the way this site I am building is going to work, one specific Post_Type is essentially just a "Data" post. There ...
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How do I get a post (page or CPT) ID from a title or slug?

I've scoured the Codex, failed to get get_page_by_title() to work and am quite surprised that there doesn't seem to be a standard WP function for this task. I need to get the ID of any given post/ ...
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How to get permalink and title from post ID?

I have stored an array of post IDs and I would like to list the posts as links, meaning I need to get the title and permalink for the post ID - $id. The list should be echoed out by the following if ...
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How to get current-menu-item title as variable?

Is possible to get current-menu-item as a php variable? I'm listing the category museums via the menu item 'museums we support' so i'd like the get 'museums we support' bit and display it somewhere? ...
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Filtering 'the_title' with option to return subhead?

Problem: The WordPress iPhone app (and other WordPress-related smartphone apps) do not allow for much other than the Title and Body fields (i.e. no access to custom fields). Goal: My current ...
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What is the proper filter to add html to a post / page title?

I want to use Myanmar Unicode text on my blog. Unfortunatly, pseudo-Unicode Myanmar fonts are common. So, I am writing a plugin that will suround all Myanmar phrases with HTML span tags, and use css ...
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page title, parent tilte and grand parent title

I am using a page hierarchy and I want to show the title of the parents and grand parents page (if there is any). The structure is something like Startpage Startpage > Second page Startpage > ...
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Filter to modify post_title after image upload?

When I upload images, Wordpress 3.4.2 sets the Title to the base of the filename, such as "DSCN1234" or "IMG_1234". I'd like the Title to be left blank. The code that sets the Title during the upload ...
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Disallow Same Post Title

I am looking for some code where member can't use the same title as another post already having or used. e.g if there is a post with title "Amazing Australia Tour" than it should not allow to use the ...
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Changing “Enter title here” based on post format

I'm wondering if is possible to change the text "Enter title here" based on the post format that you selected? For example: If you select the post format Quote than your text will be "Enter author's ...
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Get title of post without using the_title();

Noob question. Is there another way of getting a posts title without using the_title(); I'm asking because I am using a function the take a string parameter, then after some code, returns this ...
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What code do you use to generate the text to go into the HTML title tag?

The question title says it all. Myself I just stick with the default code from one of the packaged templates that comes with WordPress out of the box: <title><?php /* * Print the ...
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How to intercept Post Title on Post-Save

I am new to WP and I couldn't find this solution by myself. this is my function, function explodetitletotags() { global $post; $title = $post->post_title; $tags = explode(' ', ...
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When calling wp_title(), do you have to create some kind of “title.php” file?

... or does wp_title() already handle the various contexts in your blog? This could clarify for me how I can achieve a reusable index.php file without having all the conditional statements inside it ...
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How to change wordpress post title?

How to change just wordpress post title but not menu items. add_filter('the_title', 'wordpress_title'); function wordpress_title(){ return 'New title'; }
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Posts created in a Custom Post Type are lost if published without a title

I searched around and the URL below is all I could find on this problem. If I publish a custom post type's post without entering in a post title, it wipes the whole post's info and says "published". ...
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How To Set Custom Post Type Title Without Supports

So, I asked this question differently in another thread but it was more of an advice type question so it really didn't render any useful responses. I believe I can word it better and should help some ...
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Change the_title() of a page dynamically

I'm developing a plugin that doesn't use a custom post type, but separate database tables. It's a plugin that displays a list of courses with links that lead to the different course detail pages, ...
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Display post title on individual image attachment page

How to display parent post title on individual image attachment page heading of the post gallery? Currently, it shows image name as page heading on image attachment page. Any help appreciated. Thanks ...
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title_save_pre on post publish

I'm trying to build the title of a custom post using the values within post custom fields. The problem is that using title_save_pre only executes when I update the post, not when I create it. When I ...
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How to add terms to a post depending on its title?

I want to add all posts with keyword "Dog Training" in the post title to a specific category. Reason: If you enter something into WordPress search it's not an exact match. Previous WordPress search ...
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Browser title script ignoring is_page /else conditional [closed]

I've used this code to stipulate different separators for different pages in my clients site: <title> <?php if(is_page('Portfolio')){ wp_title( 'of', true, 'right' ); echo ...
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wp_title() empty on a static front page

I'm trying to use wp_title() to create a heading for my pages, but I'm using a static front page and, while all of the other pages render the title properly, the front page won't. This is what I'm ...
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order by second word in title?

I have full names as title posts and want to order it by the surname. How could i do this with wordpress? in PHP it would be along the lines of - SELECT * from posts ORDER BY ...
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Custom Post Type with Custom Title

I have a custom post type without title support and I'm trying to generate one from post's taxonomies and custom fields. To do so, I'm using this code: function custom_post_type_title_filter( $data , ...
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How do I set the blog name?

I am new to WordPress and don't know how to set the "blog name". I need to change a current value that has been coded (or set) somewhere for the home page only. It is appearing in the title, and I ...
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Change page title from plugin

Is possible to change page title on the fly from plugin? I've try global $post, but seem like plugin runs after. Any Ideas? Edit: Im writting some pages on the fly, based on same page / post, so ...
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1answer
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Add title, post content, and category like add_post_meta and update_post_meta

How can I update/add a new title, post content, and category to a post with hard PHP code similar to add_post_meta(), update_post_meta()?
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wp_title() handling of author page

Why doesn't wp_title() display the author's name on an author archive as it does for a category or date archive? How can I hack this functionality? header.php calls: <title><?php wp_title ( ...
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How to display post title & excerpt when mouse hovers on an image?

I am bit busy with developing one fashion website, currently (http://test-domain.zakirsajib.co.uk/), where I have images come from posts and when mouse will hover on any image, the corresponding post ...
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How to display following posts titles in separate div's on a separate webpage

Intro: I have a webpage that is not part of wordpress. I have incorporated the wp blog posts, by putting The Loop in the page's code. This works, it displays the current posts and their following ...
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Set post title from two meta fields

In a custom post type I have post titles disabled, however in the list of posts and in the slug it just shows the title as "auto-draft". I want to automatically take two pieces of post-meta and make ...
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How to use the Display Name as the post title in a custom post type?

I've created a custom post type called "teacher" and I want to use that person's display name as the title of their post. Details: 1. The "teacher" custom post type supports title. 2. Only logged in ...
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Short_title character problem

I am using this code to shorting the title: function short_title( $after = '', $length ) { $mytitle = get_the_title(); if( strlen( $mytitle ) > $length ) { $mytitle = substr( ...
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Empty title on front page/Home

My main problem is around the title. In my index.php, I have specified a title tag and inserted the following: <?php wp_title(); ?> | <?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?> My problem is the it ...
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Verify if tag is used on posts

I'm using site tags for a glossary. I would like to display a link to the tagged page if the tag exists, otherwise just display the tag title. Is there a check which would allow me to determine if the ...

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